I don't understand the whole dating thing.I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone,and I don't want them to waste their money on me andtake me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.- Britney Spears

I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wantedto do since I was little.I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier.- Britney Spears

Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more couldyou want in a person? He's funny.He's cute.He's great.He just understands.I get him and he gets me, and that's cool.- Britney Spears

I remember I read this harsh review about my show,and one of my friends told me that this was the exactsame stuff people said about Madonna.And it's like, she didn't care.Madonna just came out and was herself.I respect that a lot.- Britney Spears

I would like to be called an inspiration to people,not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else.When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.- Britney Spears

I don't really have time to sit down and write.But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it,so I won't forget it.- Britney Spears

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunityto learn about amazing world of dance and music thatI've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.- Britney Spears

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mindwill stop thinking about things that I stress about.- Britney Spears

I don't want people kissing my butt.If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show.I hate that.I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.- Britney Spears

I like meeting all my fans and signing autographs,although it can all get a bit crazy.Yesterday, for example, a boy just came over and planted a big kiss on my face!I was like, 'Hello?'- Britney Spears

I know not everyone will like me, but this is who Iam so if you don't like it,tough!- Britney Spears

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone.I would be really scared.I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go usethe bathroom I have this big long hallway,and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.- Britney Spears

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna.Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing,the audience is just in awe of her.- Britney Spears

People will forget what you said,people will forget what you did,but people will never forgethow you made them feel.- Maya Angelou

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,prosperity would not be so welcome.- Anne Bradstreet

I've learned that people will forget what you said,people will forget what you did,but people will never forget how you made them feel.- Maya Angelou

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointedby the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.So throw off the bowlines.Sail away from the safe harbor.Catch the trade winds in your sails.Explore. Dream. Discover.- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -when did we grow so dull and brittle.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never say or do anything you wouldn't wantto be the last thing you ever said or did.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.He should sweep streets so well that all the hostsof heaven and earth will pause to say,here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing,we would literally astound ourselves.- Thomas Edison

Every day I give thanks that I am me,and that everything that has ever occurred in my lifehappened exactly as it did -however unpleasant it may have appeared at the time.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.- Sydney Harris

There are two kinds of failures:those who thought and never did,and those who did and never thought.- Laurence J. Peter

Success comes from knowing thatyou did your best to become the bestthat you are capable of becoming.- John Wooden

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.The good leader is he who the people revere.The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."- Lao Tzu

Jesus preached more and taught moreabout helping the poor and the sick and the hungrythan he did about heaven and hell.Shouldn't that tell us something?- John Grisham

We did not change as we grew older;we just became more clearly ourselves.- Lynn Hall

When the best leader's work is done the people say,"We did it ourselves."- Lao Tzu

I recognize that the person I was in my pastis not the person I am today.That person did the very best they could,given the knowledge, emotions, and prior experiencethey had to draw upon at the time.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Civilization had too many rules for me,so I did my best to rewrite them.- Bill Cosby

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,sometimes you don't.What matters is that you did your best.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,they will say: we did it ourselves.- Lao Tzu

True believers just don't see things the way they are,because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.- Philip Caputo

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,his troops will feel they did it themselves.- Lao Tzu

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.- John Burroughs

As for accomplishments,I just did what I had to do as things came along.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Many of life's failures are people who did not realizehow close they were to success when they gave up.- Thomas Edison

I did not wish to take a cabin passage,but rather to go before the mastand on the deck of the world,for there I could best seethe moonlight amid the mountains.I do not wish to go below now.- Henry David Thoreau

A leader is best when people barely know he exists,not so good when people obey and acclaim him,worst when they despise him.But of a good leader, who talks little,when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,they will say, "We did this ourselves."- Lao Tzu

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.- Mitch Hedberg

Brought up to respect the conventions,love had to end in marriage.I'm afraid it did.- Bette Davis

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?What is this thing called the world?How did I come into the world?Why was I not consulted?And If I am compelled to take part in it,Where is the director? I want to see him.- Soren Kierkegaard

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.- Naguib Mahfouz

I honor you, Hero, for you do not play to the crowd.You play to your own soul.An audience of one fills the house with its appreciation and applause.Others follow you, and may attempt to emulate you,but that is not why you are a hero.Fame may smile upon you, or it may not.The world may cheer your name, or you may be the unknown warriorwho rescued comrades in battle,or taught a young girl how to shed tears of joy.Whatever you did, you did not do for fame.If you had, you would not be a Hero.You are a Hero for your bold courageous inspired action.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The course of true love never did run smooth.- William Shakespeare

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.But I did, I do, and I will.- Anonymous

As I have discovered by examining my past,I started out as a child.Coincidentally, so did my brother.My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket,so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell,who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."- Bill Cosby

Where did you park the invisible car?- the movie Megamind (2010)

Guilt says I've done something wrong;... shame says there is something wrong with me.Guilt says I've made a mistake;... shame says I am a mistake.Guilt says what did was not good;... shame says I am no good.- John Bradshaw

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes,I had one thousand and sixty.- Imelda Marcos

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's officeand they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eightmore ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.- Nicolas Cage